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  • #816742

    skeeter
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    Okay time to come clean. Who else has advance tickets to see this amazing movie?

    #821843

    2 Much Whine
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    It’s about Seattle weather, right? I don’t need to watch a movie about that – I live it 360 days a year.

    #821844

    sbre
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    I thought is was an AARP thing about various hair colors of their members!

    #821845

    JanS
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    oh, sbre…I resemble that…I think I have all shades right now…

    #821846

    JoB
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    so yesterday i watched what was basically a commercial for this film done by a couple of the “Real” housewives that stated that he started out manipulating her but he fell for her and in the end she manipulated him.

    this is romantic?

    #821847

    JoB
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    i seem to remember a similar bondage/control/manipulation book/film elevated to a high form of romance in the late 70’s maybe?

    i can’t remember what it was called… but i remember it as the romantic Ayn Rand

    #821848

    PangolinPie
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    Could you be thinking of Secretary, JoB?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/

    That was a pretty good film, IMO.

    Personally, I have no interest in seeing 50 Shades…the book looks pretty awful, like the soft-core stuff people who don’t know how to find real porn might read. ;)

    #821849

    JoB
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    Pangolini Pie

    that one was a decent movie..

    but it’s not what i am thinking of..

    i can’t remember how old i was when it came out but i thought it was 70s…maybe it was 60s…

    got some difficult news today .. my baby brothers are showing their age .. and the brain is definitely sluggish :(

    #821850

    PangolinPie
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    Hey JoB, I hope the difficult news doesn’t make your day/life TOO rough. Hang in there. I suffer from Sluggish Brain too quite often. :)

    #821851

    wsn00b
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    We have advance purchase tickets. For Valentine’s day. FML.

    #821852

    waynster
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    wait you mean they use leather and fur and handcuffs….I have no knowledge of those sort of things nope I don’t nope hehehehe…..

    Job was the movie called carnal knowledge by chance I recall a movie like this alas I too have a slight loss of growing young…..lol

    #821853

    anonyme
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    Not really interested in Fifty Shades, but the actor Jamie Dornan plays a serial killer in an excellent series called “The Fall”. A different approach, and really well done.

    #821854

    Lindsey
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    @JoB It’s terrible, a practical handbook for emotional manipulation and domestic abuse.

    50 Shades of Grey started out as a fan fiction (fan-written fiction about existing characters) of Twilight. So… it’s a pretty blatant plagiarism of an already poorly written book featuring a very unhealthy relationship. I hope it will be Showgirls-level awful!

    Here’s an article on the problematic relationship in the book:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/consent-isnt-enough-in-fifty-shades-of-grey/385267/

    But in the end, if you still want to see Jamie Dornan play an intensely good-looking psychopath, check out the BBC show The Fall on Netflix. :) He plays a serial killer who stalks and strangles dark-haired women, not really that far off from Christian Grey.

    #821855

    Lindsey
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    @anonyme Well hello fellow Fall fan! Can’t wait for season three. Gillian Anderson is also amazing in it. #threadjack

    #821856

    PangolinPie
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    Very interesting article there in the Atlantic, Lindsey. It sounds worse than I had thought.

    #821857

    wakeflood
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    Speaking of both Gillian Anderson and inappropriate relationships…

    …did anyone here watch Hannibal? ;-)

    Too bad it didn’t get picked up for another season but then again, they killed off most of the cast so…

    #821858

    JoB
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    waynster.. no it wasn’t that one either..

    it was very much the type of thing that i have seen on the trailers for this one :(

    and yes… Lindsey.. i agree with you.. it’s awful

    the premise is both sophomoric and demeaning

    thus appealing to those whose love of Ayn Rand has stifled their intellect

    #821859

    JoB
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    Pangolini Pie..

    the silver lining is that the recent health scares have triggered a sibling get together in October.

    if the sun shines and the creek don’t rise

    #821860

    JanS
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    JoB…you mean…Paul Ryan has tickets for this weekend? :->

    #821861

    JoB
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    #821862

    bsmomma
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    I personally thought the books were decent. Couldn’t put them down. I was supposed to see it tonight in a fancy Redmond theater sipping wine with my girly friends. But sadly, I have no one to watch the kiddo. So, I will be watching TMNT…..again.:)

    I don’t get the Domestic Abuse accusations everyone keeps throwing around. It’s straight up Kinky Sex. S&M. Dominatrix type of stuff. He spanks her…in a sexual manner. Not in an abusive angry way. Trust me, none of that is domestic abuse.

    #821863

    HelperMonkey
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    wakeflood – not sure where you’re getting your info but Hannibal was renewed for season 3, set to air this summer. #threadjack #again #fannibal

    #821864

    wakeflood
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    Oh, I stand corrected. I thought I’d read it somewhere that it wasn’t picked up. Thanks!

    #821865

    HelperMonkey
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    no prob. love that show too. TBH every time I watch it I am amazed they allow it on network tv, so I have been anticipating they were going to cancel it and have been keeping a close eye on it. :)

    #821866

    pattilea
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    bsmomma, the books were fun, and not Domestic abuse. I am going to go see it!

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